Mining classical music gold.


I’ve been streaming for months now.  For some unexplainable reason I’ve been concentrating for the main part on the latest classical releases out there . Quizzically, I have ignored the unlimited access to recorded history that we have in our hands. Heifetz, Horowitz, Reiner, Toscanini, Piatigorsky, Stokowski and countless other twentieth century geniuses are copiously available.  I just can’t believe it took me this long to wake up.

I’m writing this for any classical music lovers who, like me, have been blind to the mind-blowing potential afforded us.

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My favorite Version on Tacet  (Tubes only recording ) of Haydn quatuors: 

The sound is gorgeous and the interpretation is top notch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plmy7D4myes&list=RDplmy7D4myes&start_radio=1

 

I am not alone thinking this way about them :

https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-16009/

I agree with the suggestions on the Bach solo violin.  I also would add Christian Tetzlaff.

Still on Bach, there is the great Mass in B Minor.

There is the great version with Karl Richter and the Munich Bach Choir, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the peak of his career.

However, I really line the Pygmalion with Raphael Pichon.  Fischer-Dieskau, but really great choir works.

With all these classical music posts, would anybody like me to revive my thread: “Classical Music for Afficionados?” I dropped it some time ago because of sparse participation. If interested just look up the site and participate.  I’m going to re-create it now.